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Linus Pauling offers his visionary insights and remarkable intuition into the success of the Goldhammer–Herzfeld criterion in rationalizing the occurrence of metallic character in the periodic table of the chemical elements. He also establishes the direct link with the concept of the metallic orbital (Edwards & Sienko 1983c). Photograph courtesy of California Institute of Technology.
